April 2009
7 posts
My Rating System
5/5- Reserved of Classics or films that I consider masterpieces
4/5- A great film
3/5- A good film, worth watching
2/5- A decent film
1/5- A bad film
0/5- Something that is absolutely awful
10 Actors to Watch
Same as before.
1) Marlon Brando
Apocalypse Now, A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront.
2) Charlie Chaplin
City Lights, Gold Rush, Modern Times.
3) Daniel Day Lewis
My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
4) Robert DeNiro
The Godfather Part II, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver.
5) Clint Eastwood
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars,...
10 Directors to Watch
It’s hard to do Top 10 lists, but this is a list of my favourite directors. With each director I list the three best movies that they have done. This is tough to do because there are still tons of films I haven’t seen and my opinion could change easily. Comments are welcome… so is criticism.
(the directors are in alphabetical order, so are the films… not the order of...
March 2009
21 posts
WatchVery Nice, Very Nice (1961)
This is a powerful film that needs to be watched several times.
Arthur Lipsett created this masterpiece and it is an avant-garde combination of photography and sound. It looks behind the business-as-usual face we put on life and shows anxieties we want to forget. The film is a combination of sound clips and images from unused film. He blends the images and sound...
Keep Your Mouth Shut! →
Another gem from the NFB that I’ve studied in Canadian film classes. This film has a talking skull warning Canadians about giving away secrets that could be used by the Axis. Watch it and listen to it, is there anything scarier than this. This is a very effective piece of film making. Norman McLaren is really a genius.
The Log Driver's Watlz →
Anyone else from Canada recognize this? I remember seeing this every Saturday morning during my youth.. wow, the NFB has so many great films and they’re all becoming available online. Check it out!
M (1931) →
I’m taking a really cool German Cinema class right now and as an assignment the Prof. decided that students should improve the quality of existing Wikipedia entries for German Films. I decided to work on my favourite German film, M. This was an interesting project to do and was a nice alternative to a term paper. Click the link to view the page and the changes to it after more scholarly...
The 10 Best Films I've Seen... So far
(In alphabetical order)
Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio di Sica)
8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen)
M (Fritz Lang)
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
The Best of 2008
1) My Winnipeg
2) Synecdoche, NY
3) Wall-E
4)The Wrestler
5) Milk
6) Man on a Wire
7) In Bruges
8) Happy-Go-Lucky
9) The Visitor
10) Frozen River
Thoughts on Crumb (1994)
The most recent film that I’ve seen is Crumb. Going into the movie I assumed it would be great because it was a documentary produced by David Lynch and directed by Terry Zwigoff… It was definitely one of the best films I’ve seen in a long time. This film is absolutely haunting as it traces the life and career of Robert Crumb, famous for his bizarre and erotically charged drawings. He is...
February 2009
1 post
